SaaStr

APRIL 16, 2020

In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Carolyn made her way across the pond from Head of US Communications at Orange to GM of Method in SF to then playing a key role in the marketing team at PagerDuty? * How does Carolyn think startups and larger companies can replace the leads that are lost from having no events in a COVID-19 world?

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

As for Krish, under Krish’s leadership the team has grown to over 300 people and over 5,000 clients making it one of the next generation in truly global SaaS businesses started in India. Does one have to expand the product line to retain customers? First, what is continuous customer development?

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

What can teams do to bring their themes to life? As I’ve said before, I’ve heard so many good things from Brian and the team at Venrock. And so I started to build some of classic demand gen functions, like BDR team. I’m going to look at the buying team. Who is involved? What needs to be ready?

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SmartKarrot

JUNE 30, 2022

Customer success is one aspect of corporate SaaS mergers and acquisitions that is sometimes overlooked. Organizations are guilty of putting it on the back burner even though it is one of the most crucial factors in success. Maintaining the focus on customer success throughout the mergers and acquisitions process is difficult.

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SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

A big toast on reaching the pinnacle of customer success in your organization. And to ease the nervous energy, I have prepared a roadmap specifically for you to accomplish what you need to do in the first 90 days as a new VP of Customer Success. Your chance to get acquainted with the company culture.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Developing a product that solves a customer’s pain point provides a sense of pride and can drive the positive, emotional moment of awe that retains customers for the long haul. Winning the trust of your customers may take time (and can be lost in a fraction of that time), but earning that trust is essential to success.

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SaaStr

MARCH 18, 2019

Scaling the company’s employee base, sales teams, marketing, and operations—all while preserving its culture—has required a laser focus on first principles, smart processes, and effective hiring. Our team is in Room 111. They were self taught developers. Your registration. We’re doing office hours all day.

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SaaStr

MAY 15, 2020

333: Bridget Gleason is the Head of Sales and Customer Success @ Tidelift, the company providing managed open source, backed by maintainers. In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Bridget made her way into the world of SaaS and Sales and came to be Head of both Sales and Customer Success at Tidelift. * What works?

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SaaStr

MAY 24, 2019

235: Andrew Filev is the Founder & CEO @ Wrike, the cloud based collaboration and project management software that scales across teams in any business. In Dec 2008, Vista Equity Partners acquired a majority stake in Wrike for a deal reportedly valuing the company at $800m. We had a pretty big team.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 5, 2022

After working on NASA’s Space Shuttle Main Engine, he went on to develop Portfolium, a social networking platform that allows students and graduates to showcase skills beyond the traditional resume to potential employers. Portfolium was eventually acquired, but the team behind it never stopped thinking about a better way to do it.

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SaaStr

MAY 31, 2019

How can one prevent their customer support team from being a wall of protection for the product and eng team? How can you ensure seamless collaboration and communication flow between product and customer support? What are the most important things when establishing your first remote team?

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SmartKarrot

MARCH 23, 2023

POLICY #2 Enhancing Skills Utilizing Professional Development and Training to continuously improve hard and soft skills. Learning and Development programs are critical for the success of organizations. POLICY #4 Recognize Your People Integrate recognition into your culture and watch your teams flourish.

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SmartKarrot

MARCH 23, 2023

POLICY #2 Enhancing Skills Utilizing Professional Development and Training to continuously improve hard and soft skills. Learning and Development programs are critical for the success of organizations. POLICY #4 Recognize Your People Integrate recognition into your culture and watch your teams flourish.

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Chargify

APRIL 23, 2019

Here’s an example: in the beginning, New Relic didn’t see their target customers as developers. They zeroed in on Ruby on Rails developers as their early adopters and became a voice within that very niche community. Later they expanded to serve a larger population of developers as they scaled.”. Scaling prematurely.

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SaaStr

MARCH 24, 2020

Sam Blond, CSO at Brex explains why recruiting, networking and employee happiness is the key to this playbook on recruiting your sales team. I’m doing The Playbook To Recruiting Your Sales Team. Once again, amazing job to the SaaStr team. I’m really honored to share this stage with some really bad ass speakers.

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SaaStr

JULY 5, 2023

The Team Matters More Than The Operating Model Snow’s greatest piece of advice is to choose your team wisely. He believes the team is more important than the operating model because you can have the best models in the world. But if you don’t have the underlying team and structure, it won’t work. They didn’t.

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Totango

JULY 1, 2022

Cultivating customer loyalty requires a larger investment: where B2C SaaS customer service issues and loyalty programs may be handled entirely through automation or tech support and sales staff, B2B customers may require automated and manual support from a customer success team.

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Neil Patel

MARCH 10, 2021

Entrepreneurs make decisions for themselves, realize their creative visions, and develop lasting relationships with other entrepreneurs, customers, and vendors. That’s why I’ve founded so many companies — I can’t get enough. Hire Great Partners to Help You Become a Successful Entrepreneur.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Prior to their incredibly successful IPO in April of 2017, they raised funding from some of the best in the business including Sequoia, a16z, Greylock, Khosla and Floodgate to name a few. How does the structure of your marketing team need to change with the evolution? And this schedule really was a team effort.

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Neil Patel

MARCH 21, 2023

Hire Great Partners to Help You Become a Successful Entrepreneur I’ll admit that this one might be a little bit obvious. Successful entrepreneurs aren’t successful within a vacuum. We all have a great team and support network behind us. If you don’t respect your partner(s), your team won’t last long.

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SaaStr

MARCH 20, 2019

What does Jeff mean when he says, “the developer first approach is a maturation of the supply chain of software?” How has Jeff seen his original thesis for “developer first” evolve and change with time? What does truly special customer experience look like in the developer first model? * Jeff Lawson: Sure.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

As you can tell from that list, it was really a team effort, so huge thanks for that. And after a bunch of moving around, I ended up working in product development, actually, for a middleware company, and I did that for four years. ” But really, it was the team side of it. How do you think about that?

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SaaStr

JUNE 4, 2021

Pomel focused his session on: Making your SaaS startup customer-centric: Hw event marketing has helped him integrate his engineering and sales teams. Lastly, he provides his piece of advice to all founders that are looking to become customer-centric. We had worked together in four different companies before that.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

As for Jon, prior to being Chief Customer Officer at Box, he was Senior VP of Customer Success, responsible for all post-sales services Box provides from implementation to user adoption and more. What does Jon mean when he says, “You have to constantly bring your customers to the forefront of your employees minds”?

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SaaStr

MARCH 6, 2020

To meet buyers’ high expectations and manage the challenging sales landscape, companies must involve their entire organization in maturing the sales process- including after prospects sign on the dotted line. Write it down, share the rough draft with your team, debate it, prioritize it. This episode is sponsored by TaxJar.

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SaaStr

MARCH 12, 2019

And so I just want to throw in a framework around product market fit measured by customer value creation, then go to market fit measured by economics, then we scale fast. So first off, I’m saying we start with customer success. Isn’t sales really around customer value creation? Growth and milk. What is sales?

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SaaStr

AUGUST 20, 2020

343: Kyle Parrish is the Head of Sales @ Figma, the company that helps teams create, test and ship better designs from start to finish. To date the company has raised over $132M in financing from some of the best in the business including Sequoia, a16z, Index, Greylock and Kleiner Perkins to name a few. What worked?

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SaaSX

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Plus, you’ll also be obliged to bring your entire team on board by encouraging your colleagues to roll out the welcome mat and adopt some partner-friendly best practices. Customer success expert Lincoln Murphy advises that top-of-list candidates should include companies “ready, willing, and able” to join your ranks. (He

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SaaSOptics

MAY 6, 2022

To scale an early-stage company, you need to focus on the following core areas of your business: Financial Core —to create a streamlined quote-to-cash process. Customer Core —to maintain and develop customer relationships. Poor financial records are not something you can run away from. Financial Core.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 21, 2020

Justin used Sales Culture to grow a successful PatientPop team to 140 employees and 55 million in revenue. When I was hired, I came in with one salesperson and zero dollars in recurring revenue and over the next four years grew the sales team to over 140 employees and 55 million in recurring revenue.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

I mean, if you were a Johnson & Johnson, or you were any of these large manufacturers, you had one person or a tiny little team on Amazon, and that was it. I’m actually a big believer in it, to an extent, if it’s a healthy ratio, given its ability for customer success and retention. Ugh, services revenue.

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Chart Mogul

JULY 1, 2020

They decided to ask their previous clients whether they also find recruitment and scheduling customer interviews a problem they face in their research, and if more than 50% say yes, to proceed with their idea. Customer development interviews. Relevance and added value are key to developing our customer base.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Jos White of Notion and Christian Lanng of Tradeshift team up to show you how to work within, and sometimes around, rules in the workplace. Join this discussion to learn how to maximize efficiency within your company. It’s also about remembering nobody knew earlier on what could be the size of a SaaS company.

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OpenView Labs

MAY 12, 2020

With experience in both B2B and B2C at companies such as HubSpot and Wayfair, Dan has built teams across marketing, growth, sales, customer success, business development, and founded and sold a video tech startup of his own. His new book, Understanding Startup CEOs , is out today.

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Chart Mogul

JULY 1, 2020

They decided to ask their previous clients whether they also find recruitment and scheduling customer interviews a problem they face in their research, and if more than 50% say yes, to proceed with their idea. Customer development interviews. Relevance and added value are key to developing our customer base.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Bill Clerico : We kind of instantly became one of the best funded FinTech companies in the Valley. We grew our team by 50% this year, continuing to grow. A lot of companies show trillion dollar market sizes. So I think like anything it’s been good and bad. And I think our team has done that too.

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Sixteen Ventures

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Customer Success is transformative. Whether you have a Software-as-a-Service, subscription or membership business or you sell one-off products or services and simply want to do business with your customer more than once, Customer Success should be your driving purpose. Here’s to your success in 2020! . .

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